Passenger bus



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v E. LEIINDQRF PASSENGER BUS Filed Jan. 25, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2LEFINDGZEF GI? T431312, N.

A Question filed Jenner $555, 1922. serial 1%. 531 G53.

To of! whom 2 2 may concern: in the drawings, Figure l is e elemlinownthat i, EMIL linnvooni", e cit1- tion oi one term of passenger busembody- '1 the United States, and a resident of ing my invention.

Yoi'lg in the county of New York and 53 is a sectional view taken on theline s oi York, have invented certain 2-2 of 1. and nscifni improvementsin a Passen- Fig. 3 is e fragmentary detail sectional 1 @132 line, ofwhich the following is a full, view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig 2, and

' specification. Fig. 4- is a detail sectional view, partly siesta andrt This invemion i'elates more particularly fragmentary, taken on theline of 65 to to i of public vehicles. Fig.

.ci'y invention has for its object primarily The has has 21 body 10mounted on wheels to provide :1 vehicle or bus designed to he 11, andthe vehicle is preferzibiy of an autoespecially on uhiic highways formotive driven class The body may be of H pnssengem one which is of itform any appropriate shape and size, though the To to permit one personto serve as e form of the body shown is suhstentiaily rect- "81 oroperator of the vehicle as well angular and on top of the body is anupper as p lining the duties usually required of deck 12. Interioily ofthe body are a numa c'ndnctoi, in order to save the expense of be]: ofsuitably arranged spaced seats E2, the unlViCQS of the latter attendantmsis inwhile on the upper deck are eiso provided 75 cidcnt to thetypes'of public vehicles of this jspeced seats 12" so that passengersmay be class ii present in use The invention conaccommodated on the deckand in the body.

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si s oly of the provision of a vehicle Inthe forward part of the floorof the upi381 xingan uppei' deck with an entrance, per deck of the bodys an opening which inn ieznnng from the interior of the body to servesas an entrance 13- leucling from the 8 th s entrance is a stairwaysotllet persons interior of the body to the deck, and within iii/ed intothe body may to the deck. the forward part of the body 10 is a stairinthe body contiguous to the stairway is a wny 1% which leads to theentrance '13 for Qfinlpl-il'tlnllf'f0? occupancy by e clniulleurenabling persons to pass to and from the utor of the vehicle. In one ofthe deck from the interior of the body. In the 85 so mails oi the bodylesdin toward the combody between its firont end and the stairway ht isa door closeil enti'ance for ad 14 is a compartment 15 for occupziIn-ymy the passengers intothe body and. to the chsuiieni' or operator of thevehicle. In one eck, and adjacent to this entrance is of the side Wallsof the body if) its front iosed exit for allowing passengers to end isan entrance 16 which is ofnpteol to be 99 'i from the deck and fi'oniihebody so opened and closed by a door 17, and in this operator oithe'vehicie easily sidewuli of the body is an exit 18 adjacent e the,persons entering and leaving to the entrance 16. The exit 18 is also thevehicle. adapted to be opened and ciosed by a door (Ether objects of theinvention are to pro- 19, and both of the doors may be of forms to (isvide n signalling device which is operative permit the chauffeur of thevehicle to c imate within the body to indicate a given signal in them.On the exterior of the body of the compartment; to provide 21 secondsignah -vehicle may be one or more steps as 20, iing; device which isopei'zitive on the nppei' so that passengers may enter and depart deckto indicate in theconipnrtmenta signal from the vehicle to and from thehigh- 1% distinct from the other signs-i; end to 'proway when thevehicle is at a standstill. yids passengerhus ofit simple and eiti- Inthe body 10 and leading: from the ento form Whichmsy be made in anyspprotrance it toward the compnitment 15 is a,

piistesizc. passage 21, and also in the body leading these and otherobjects in view the from the exit 18 toward the stairway i4 is W A\Vilii'br) hereinafter more fnily do another passage 22. The pcsseges 2iand feience to the eoconi ninying 2L are adjacent to each other, andthey may forming ov port of this specificwv lie i fififlfrti byproviding a i'eilin y as 23,

ich similar characters of ref 'ence whici. extends from between thedoors 1? coi-respondin U ports in all t ewe, and I! to part of theinterior of the hody 10 then be pointed out in the claim at in spacedrelation to the compartment 15; '1 tile descriptionvv In the spacebetween the compni'tinent and be prevented from leaving the body throughthe passage 21. The passage 22 is provided by a railing, as 26,interiprly of the body from the exit 18 so that this railing 26 is inspaced parallel relation to the railing 23. To

part of one of these railings within the body may be hinged a gate, as27, adapted to be swung toward and from the door 19 so that passengersdeparting from the vehicle will pass from the body and from the upperdeck into the passage 22 and depart through the exit 18, in order not tointerfere with the passengers entering the vehicle by way of theentrance 16. 7

To allow passengers in the body 10 to notify'the chauffeur or operatorto stop the t'tti vehicle a signal, as 28, is provided in thecompartment 15. This signal may be in the form of abell which ispreferably interposed in an electric circuit, not shown, which isarranged for being closed to cause the bell to ring by pressing one ormore push buttons provided at suitable parts of the interior of thebody. To permit passengers on the upper deck 11 to notify the chautt'euror operator to stop the bus a signal, as 29, is also provided in thecompartment 15. The signal 29 may belin the form of a buzzer so that itssound will be distinct from the bell 28 for enabling the chauffeurtodistinguish whether one or more passengers of the upper deck or one ormore passengers in the body of the vehicle desire to de art. The signalor buzzen 29 is prefer.-

aby interposed in an electric circuit, not

shown, which is arranged for being closed to cause it to-sound bypressing one or more push buttons suitably positioned on the upper deckof the'vehicle.

. In the compartment may also be proaided a reflector or mirror 30'disposed so that the chaufieur may observe the movements of thepassengers within the body 10,

and leading from. the compartment 15 to theupper deck 11 of the vehiclemay be a suitable tvpe of periscope, as 31, to enable the chauffeur toobserve the movements of the passen ers of the upper deck. On the upperdeck 0% the vehicle may also 'be mounte' a megaphone, as 32, and leadingto the megaphone from the compartment 15 may be a speaking tube 33 sothat the chaufieurof the vehicle may giveverbal instructions orannouncements to the passengers on the deck. Thus I provide a simple,eflicient and durable passenger bus for public use of a form adapted tobe' operated by one person, in order to dispense with the services of aconductor as is incident to public vehicles of this class in general useat present.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of myinvention, but 1' do not wish to be understood as limiting myselfthereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein withoutdeparting from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of.this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the ri ht to make suchchanges as fairly fall within the S00 e'thereofi aving thus described.my'mvention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent I A passenger buswith abody having an upper deck with an exit and entrance in the frontpart of the bus, a stairway within the body and .facing the exit, anentrance door and an exit door adapted to be operated by the chauffeur,parallel railings extending from each side of the exit door, anoutwardly swinging exit gate hinged to one of the railings adjacent theexit door, an inwardly swinging entrance gate normally extending atright angles to the exit gate, a drivers seatlocated beneath thestairway and a coin box located approximately between the drivers seatand the entrance gate.

This specification signed and witnessed this 23rd day of January, A. D.1922.

EMIL LEINDORF.

"Witnesses:

A, H. MALLENHAUER, Jr. -A. Lrnon'rna.

